Show of the Week - Fose
Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 3/19/2007
Where: Washington (D.C.) Convention Center (same every year)
When: March 20–22 (annual)
Show manager: 1105 Government Information Group
Service contractor: Champion Exposition Services
Who exhibits: IT companies that want to do business with government agencies
Who attends: Government purchasing officers and IT professionals
2005 show statistics: 166,975 net sq. ft.; 450 exhibiting companies; 17,139 buyers
Position on the 2006 TSW 200: 158
First year of show: 1976
New this year: The owner. Almost a perpetual TSW 200 show since its inception more than three decades ago by Bob Harar, now chairman of Natl. Trade Productions, FOSE has passed through a few hands since then. Late last year 1105 Media wound up with the show when the company purchased its former owner, PostNewsweek Tech Media, from the Washington Post Company.
Sources: 2007 TSW Data Book; 2006 TSW 200; 1105 Media
